A link between an ice age era and a rapid polar shift

• Main Authors: W. Woelfli, W. Baltensperger
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Greenland; North Pole; Siberia
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.285.8905; http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0407082v1.pdf

The striking asymmetry of the ice cover during the Last Global Maximum suggests that the North Pole was in Greenland and then rapidly shifted to its present position in the Arctic See. A scenario which causes such a rapid geographic polar shift is physically possible. It involves an additional planet, which disappeared by evaporation within the Holocene. This is only possible within such a short period, if the planet was in an extremely eccentric orbit and hot. Then, since this produced an interplanetary gas cloud, the polar shift had to be preceded by a cold period with large global temperature variations during several million years. In the Last Global Maximum the ice cover on the North American continent reached the region of present New York and in Europe of North Germany, while East Arctic Siberia was ice free. This well known asymmetry is corroborated by current research. The palaeolithic Yana RHS site [1] at 71 ◦ N, well inside the polar circle, was populated 27000 years ago. This is referred to as ”A surprising survival story ” [2]. Alternatively, the site is an indication that the climate in that region was mild. Clearly, the Sun was not warmer since on the North American continent the climate was cold. In arctic Siberia, a mild climate could only result from lower latitude. The postulate of a geographic polar shift is more than a century old. The striking asymmetry of the ice cover on the northern hemisphere in the Last Global Maximum would disappear, if the north pole had then been situated within Greenland, shifted by about 18 ◦ from its present position in the Arctic Ocean [3]. Considering this shift, the Yana RHS site would have a position of about 53 ◦ N, appropriate for hunting and living all year round. Of course, other regions also experienced changes. For in-